Ventilators-by-Lottery: The Least Unjust Form of Allocation in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Silva, Diego S.	en
dc.date.accessioned	2020-06-18
dc.date.available	2020-06-18
dc.date.issued	2020	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22573
dc.description.abstract	Because of the scarcity of ventilators in ICUs during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there are reports that in Italy ventilators were being allocated on the basis of who had the best chance of survival. One Italian medical college recommended that “[i]nformed by the principle of maximizing benefits for the largest number…the allocation criteria need to guarantee that those patients with the highest chance of therapeutic success will retain access to intensive care.”1 In New York, pharmacists “are beginning to sound an alarm” that there is a lack of sedatives, pain killers, and paralytics for those who require intubation and artificial ventilation.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.rights	Other
dc.subject	COVID-19	en
dc.subject	Coronavirus	en
dc.title	Ventilators-by-Lottery: The Least Unjust Form of Allocation in the COVID-19 Pandemic	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.chest.2020.04.049
usyd.faculty	Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney Medical School	en

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